Saturday, December 15, 2012

Nothing to blame but the individual responsible

This weekend I was going to write about Blue Ocean Marketing
and how the GOP, instead of freaking out about how we need to move left to
attract people who never vote for us could instead use Blue Ocean Marketing to
achieve an outreach to an entire market of new voters. Nevertheless three
shootings occurred which changed the nature of my blog this weekend. I know a
lot of folks are in shock and mourning, my heart goes out to the victims, but I
am concerned because there’s already talk from the Ruling Class about gun
control, petitions on whitehouse.gov demanding our rights to bear arms be
infringed to stop crimes like this, but there’s a problem. Connecticut and
Oregon are both states which are deep blue, and both have tight gun regulations
already and both have to cede the point that their tight gun regulations did
nothing to stop these shootings.

The one shooting no
one is talking about is the one at an Alabama Hospital, why isn’t it being
talked about? Because the shooter wounded three people before being shot dead
himself by someone else who happened to be carrying a fire arm. Alabama? Red
state with loose gun regulations. A
similar incident occurred here in Utah a few years ago at Trolley Square where
a gunman opened fire at mall shoppers but was stopped dead in his tracks by a
concealed carry permit holder who happened to be carrying. You almost never
hear about these types of incidents in Red States for a reason, mutually assured
destruction works. If you break into a house in Utah or Texas do so at your own
risk, odds are you’re getting shot, ergo our crime rates are actually pretty
low in comparison to Blue States like Illinois where in Chicago, in spite of
Illinois’ recently ruled unconstitutionally tight gun regulations gangs rule
the streets shooting up neighborhoods at will doing so because they know the
people cannot defend themselves.

I hate it when people
use national tragedies to push forward a political agenda. Instead of allowing
people to absorb this horror on the left we blame guns, on the right movies and
video games which is the next area I want to discuss briefly. Most
anti-Hollywood and anti-Gaming legislation has come from the left, but it is
always the Right which immediately blames them whenever something like this
happens, and to their credit without calling for censorship usually, but still…
Hollywood and video games are a reflection of the culture not the other way
around. We create these products with the purchasing choices we make, and most
of the games that sell super well are games like Mario and you don’t exactly
see a lot of kids stomping Turtles and kicking their shells down the street do
you? If video games were causing people to mimic what they see in games it
would look more like this:

At the end of the day
we need to face reality. Guns, movies and games don’t kill people, people kill
people. There is no one to blame for these shootings but the shooters. I would
like to know when we as a society are going to grow up and be adults about
matters like this instead of trying to lay blame on everything but those
actually responsible which is the decisions made by the individual doing the
shootings.

Again my heart goes
out to the families who have lost loved ones this week. It is regrettable that
the our Evil Empire Ruling Class and their tools in the Media have decided to
politicize this further victimizing families that are already suffering by
making them props for a political debate no one actually wants to have right
now.

About Me

I am a Libertarian leaning Conservative in the vein of Hans Herman Hoppe, and FA Hayek. I am the author of "The Great Compromise: Getting Past The Emotional Nonsense Dividing America." I am absolutely opposed to government growth and interference in free markets. However I am not fanatical about my beliefs and in fact try my best to approach politics with a "moderate tone." I like to write about religion, entertainment and politics and write material designed to encourage individualism, entrepreneurship and free market solutions to solve the problems our State and Federal governments keep creating.